![]() ![]() Albright noted that Atargatis was “sexless,” and frequently assigned an “androgynous blend” of qualities by scholars of the time (he doesn’t expand on what these qualities were). Interestingly, in a 1925 paper, archaeologist W. In the first century B.C.E., he wrote that Atargatis possessed “the face of a woman, and otherwise the entire body of a fish.” Macalister credits the ancient Greek historian Diodorus Siculus with offering the fullest and best-preserved mention of her. ![]() It is, however, the Syriac fertility goddess Atargatis (‘Derketo’ to the Philistines, and, later, the Greeks) who’s said to be the first mermaid in the written record. ![]() In the first century B.C.E., Diodorus Siculus wrote that Atargatis possessed “the face of a woman, and otherwise the entire body of a fish.” ![]()
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